From: Bert Hubert Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2005 14:31:16 +0000 (+0000) Subject: release notes X-Git-Tag: pdns-2.9.18~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9c6f5deb62b2f830c4f1933e9ca08f1b9357d87a;p=thirdparty%2Fpdns.git release notes git-svn-id: svn://svn.powerdns.com/pdns/trunk/pdns@438 d19b8d6e-7fed-0310-83ef-9ca221ded41b --- diff --git a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml index 5408bfad63..bf503a9dac 100644 --- a/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml +++ b/pdns/docs/pdns.sgml @@ -86,6 +86,23 @@ The '8 million domains' release, which also marks the battle readiness of the PowerDNS Recursor. This release brings a number of new features, but also has a new build dependency, the Boost library. + + Currently several big ISPs are evaluating the PowerDNS recursor for their resolving needs, some of them have switched already. + In the course of testing, over 350 million actual queries have been recorded and replayed, the answers turn out to be satisfactorily, + although we are still looking into some very minor discrepancies (less than 0.05% of queries have unexplained differences). + + + This testing has verified that the pdns recursor, as shipped in this release, can stand up to heavy duty ISP loads + (over 20000 queries/second) and in fact does so better than major other nameservers. + + + We invite ISPs who note recursor problems to record their problematic traffic and replay it using the tools described in + to discover if PowerDNS does a better job, and to let us know the results. + + + In other news, the entire Wikipedia constellation now runs on PowerDNS using the Geo Backend! Thanks to Mark Bergsma + for keeping us updated. + General bugs fixed: @@ -96,7 +113,7 @@ - Fix backend restarting logic (reported, and suggested fix by Norbert Sendetzky) + Fix backend restarting logic (reported, and fix suggested by Norbert Sendetzky) @@ -142,6 +159,11 @@ SSQLite would fail to compile on recent Debian systems (Matthijs Mohlmann) + + + Generic MySQL would not compile on 64-bit platforms. + + @@ -164,12 +186,13 @@ - Extended regression tests, moved it to the new 'sdig' tool. + Extended regression tests, moved them to the new 'sdig' tool (see below). - Bind2backend is now blazingly fast, and highly memory efficient to boot. As a special bonus it can read gzipped zones directly. + Bind2backend is now blazingly fast, and highly memory efficient to boot. As a special bonus it can read gzipped zones directly. The '.NET' zone + is hosted using 401MB of memory, the same size as the zone on disk. @@ -180,10 +203,16 @@ by Marc Jauvin of Register4Less. + + + LDAP backend has been updated (Norbert Sendetzky). + + - See for details. Recursor improvements and fixes: + Recursor improvements and fixes. + See for details. The changes below mean that all of the caveats listed for the recursor have now been addressed. @@ -291,26 +320,7 @@ for more details. - - - Generic MySQL would not compile on 64-bit platforms. - - - - - - New technology: - - - - Added the new DNS parser logic, called MOADNSParser. Completely modular, every memory access checked. - - - - - 'sdig', a simple dig workalike with 'canonical' output, which is used for the regression tests. Based on the new DNS parser logic. - - + Generic Oracle Backend, sponsored by Register.COM. See . @@ -320,7 +330,6 @@ - Version 2.9.17 See the new timeline for progress reports.